A pile of possibilities for Quarter 2 of the ongoing YouTube event #Historathon where we read nonfiction history written in or about the years 500 - 1500 C.E. Let me know if you find something you enjoy!
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Review and thoughts on renowned classicist M. I. Finley's series of lectures comparing ancient Greek and contemporary American democracy (reprinted by @rutgersupress.bsky.social, 2018).
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Some thoughts on Emily Hauser's "Penelope's Bones: A New History of Homer's World Through the Women Written Out of It" from @uchicagopress.bsky.social (2025).
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Some thoughts on John Tomasi's and @mattzwolinski.bsky.social's "The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism" from @princetonupress.bsky.social (2023).
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Some thoughts on Ursula K Le Guin's fantastic "Left Hand of Darkness".
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Thinking about reactivating this account. Does anyone actually watch these things? #Booksky folks, ya out there?
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For Q4 of Historathon, we're spending October-December reading about everything related to nonfiction history written in or about 1820 to the present day. Come join us to toss around ideas!
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Anyone else pick up some @yalepress.bsky.social
books during their May sale?
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A few pictures from my central Texas garden in late April:
How many million Aprils came
Before I ever knew
How white a cherry bough could be,
A bed of squills, how blue!
-Sara Teasdale, "Blue Squills"
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On my nightstand: "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" by @saracharles.bsky.social (from @uchicagopress.bsky.social). Fascinating details about writing culture, script types, and - most importantly - de-romanticizing medieval life.
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"There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is that he certainly will not work." - G. K. Chesterton
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The look on my face when C.S. Lewis says in "The Discarded Image" that Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae is a "work of very mediocre intelligence."
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On the Historathon Discord, we're spending April-June reading about everything related to nonfiction history written in or about 500 A.D. - 1500 A.D. Come join us to toss around ideas!
Discord link: discord.gg/au9VHFts8k
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Check out the four books I've been reading in March.
What are you reading this weekend?
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Thoughts on Joshua Cherniss's assessment of the great liberal political theorists of the 20th century: Weber, Aron, Camus, Niebuhr, and Berlin and their concept of "tempered liberalism" (@princetonupress.bsky.social).
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Thoughts on Ritchie Robertson's massive - and superb! -"The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790" (@harpercollins.bsky.social, 2020).
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On March 20, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris after escaping from Elba and began his Hundred Days.
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Painting: "Napoleon Leaving Elba," Joseph Beaume (1836).
Looking for an up-to-date primer on how to understand the ways the Chinese Communist Party interacts with civil society while maintaining power?
Check out Bruce Dickson's "The Party and the People" (@princetonupress.bsky.social)!
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Coming out in March 2025 from @uchicagopress.bsky.social, G.A. Loud's new biography of the fascinating medieval Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (r. 1155 - 1190), who expanded his empire, fought the Papacy, and drowned while on Crusade at age 67!
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For the THIRD year in a row, the wonderful people over at @princetonupress.bsky.social are kind enough to support YouTube's ongoing effort to read nonfiction history all year long! Watch to find out which four amazing books they sent!
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Coming out later this month from @uchicagopress.bsky.social, @adapalmer.bsky.social's re-assessment of the Renaissance! Can't wait to dig in during the second quarter of Historathon2025. Always up for some revisionist periodization!
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Some final thoughts on Michael Massing's "Fatal Discord," his absolutely fantastic dual biography of Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus.
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This is how you start a novel, folks.
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Some thoughts on Robert Hughes' "The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding".
What are *you* reading this weekend?
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Some thoughts on Christopher Clark's latest book "Revolutionary Spring" (@penguinbooksusa.bsky.social, 2023) on the many political upheavals that rent Europe in two during 1848-1849.
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My thoughts on a fantastic book detailing the rocky relationship - to say the least - between two intellectual giants: "Hannah Arendt & Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics & Humanity" by Kei Hiruta (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2022)
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For the third year in a row, @princetonupress.bsky.social is supporting Historathon's effort to read history all year long! Four books - one for each quarter. What did I get? Video coming soon!
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